"Any time you see that Arab youth fist pump, you know you're going to see pain at the pump"
Eric Bolling, Fox News
The heinous reaction of the imperial apologists to recent events in Tunisia and Egypt is predictable but still breathtaking.
Let's be perfectly clear about this: Americans are being ordered by the corporate media and right-wing fear-mongers to despise Arabs who strive for freedom and dignity specifically because they are seen as underserving of such freedom. In the past two months, the Arabs have done more on their own to advance the cause of democracy in their own lands than the US ever has and probably ever will. Plus, as we've seen in Egypt, they managed to do it without our newfangled technologies and online social networking. Far from being a vindication of the "freedom agenda" of the Bush admin, this is a repudiation. Heavily implied is a message to "Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy" crowd: we are a political movement with true meaning, not a color for your Twitter avatar.
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